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This weekend's contest on the Vintage Ads LiveJournal is old underwear ads, and the group is filling up with some extraordinary pics. Here are some of my faves (click to go through to the original posts).

Aliaksei Zholner’s Youtube account features various small, clever papercraft engines that he’s made over the years, but the latest one, measuring a mere 18 x 13 x 22 mm, is the daintiest, most lovely one yet, and well worth the long hiatus since Zholner’s previous outing.

Kirby Ferguson, who created the remarkable Everything is a Remix series, has a new podcast hosted by the Recreate Coalition called Copy This and he hosted me on the debut episode (MP3) where we talked about copying, creativity, artists, and the future of the internet (as you might expect!).

The Black Friday Mac Bundle 2.0 is one of the Boing Boing Store’s best-selling Mac bundles yet, and it’s about to come to an end. If you don’t get your copy now, here’s what you’ll be missing:This bundle comes packing 9 top-rated Mac apps in one package, at the hugely discounted price of just $23.99. […]

The Boing Boing Store’s Gift Guide is full of ideas for pretty much anyone in your life like hipster ice cub trays, Xbox controllers, Halo Boards, and even diamond necklaces. As always, all products in the Boing Boing Store come at great discounts, too. Shop by price bucket starting at under $20. Under $20:Bloxx Jumbo Ice Trays […]

Unlike traditional lighters, the SaberLight features an electronic plasma beam that’s both rechargeable and butane-free. This sleek lighter is even approved by TSA, so you’ll never be stuck buying lighters you’ll just have to throw away partially used. For some people, like me, this is a pretty big game-changer. The SaberLight’s beam is actually both hotter and cleaner […]

Now I’m concerned – what other features have I been taking for granted, that I really ought to be spelling out.

At times I’ll ask my wife, if she’s going shopping, to pick something up for me. I might specify “three or four pairs of thin black cotton socks” – but not mentioning “the kind without scorpions in them.” Too much ambiguity is just asking for trouble…

The vocabulary I’ve heard men use in describing the misery of their steaming scrotums and their remedies for relief, have been creative (cursing), graphic (to the nth detail), and enthusiastically volunteered. I have yet to hear any use a word so delicate as “wilt”.

Actually, I’ve seen a suspiciously large number of stories that were covered on BB show up the next day in the Daily Mail. None of them were exclusive, but they were quirky enough to make me take notice.